LEGO® reflections in Higher Education
This is a guest post on the Advance HE website published after I had delivered a successful workshop at the HEA Annual Conference demonstrating how to use LEGO reflections in higher education.
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Creative output: “I need duvet days” – Chronically ill academics
This is an example for analysis within Embodied Inquiry from my research with chronically ill academics. The illustrated poem was created from the transcripts of conversations with chronically ill academics and an arts-based approach to making sense of...
Invisible disabilities in academia
This is a contribution to Times Higher Education from February 2018 about invisible disabilities in the higher education sector.
Strategies to manage academic life
This is a post I wrote in July 2018 about how neurodiverse, chronically ill and disabled academics manage their academic life. This was published as a guest post on the Chronically Academic blog.
Dr Nicole Brown
Please, download my full CV from here. I am Director of Social Research & Practice and Education Ltd. and I work at University College London. I currently supervise dissertations at undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral level, I lead...
Using creative methods to collect data in social research
Workshop to explore creativity within research and to identify opportunities to use creative methods within the research process.
Article: Increasing students’ engagement with reflections
This article seeks to explore the nature and depth of students’ engagement by providing an example from a teacher education programme.
Teaching international students
I have been asked about strategies for teaching international students. In principle, we should continue focussing on group work and sharing experiences and thus building collaborative, reflective practices. So the strategies I am presenting here for...
Article: Making academia more accessible
The remit of this paper is to provide practical ideas and recommendations to address accessibility issues in events and conferences as a first step to improving existing working conditions.
Reshaping higher education
This is my reshaping higher education contribution to the post-strike Big Meeting organised by Reclaim the University in June 2018.
“I can’t describe what I’m going through”
This is my contribution to the RAI2018 conference in London "I can't describe what I'm going through - research, arts and therapy".
Using creative methods to support well-being amongst PhD students
This workshop provides attendees with reflective tools to help PhD students understand their innermost emotions, concerns and needs, which is a first step towards developing strategies for well-being.
Article: Exploring the lived experience of fibromyalgia
The paper reports on the lived experience of fibromyalgia, which used identity boxes and metaphorical representation to offer a holistic view.
Ableism in the curriculum
In this post, I explain what ableism in the curriculum is, and what we as teachers can do to counter ableism in the curriculum.
Academic identity: active identity and body work in academia
In my contribution to the SRHE Annual Conference, I talked about academics' active body work and identity work to maintain their academic identity.
Meaningful, external-facing assessments
This is my presentation related to a collaborative project at UCL to develop portfolios to become meaningful, external-facing assessments.